i am not too worried about this, it will be like every other time a media person is wrong, they’ll just stop talking about it and pretend like nothing happened
I remember when McMegan insisted that people who (unlike her) opposed the Iraq War were "right for the wrong reasons."
Since most of us predicted what would happen, we were actually right for the right reasons.
She's arguable the worst columnist in the US. There are bigger hacks (Hewitt, Thiessen), bigger bores (Dowd, Friedman), bigger jackasses (Will, Douthat) but McMegan's inability to write or to ever have a vaguely accurate insight are truly unrivaled.
What were the ‘wrong’ reasons for opposing the Iraq War?
War is wrong in general, and they had nothing to do with terrorism or nuclear proliferation were mine.
In a sign that the Biden nomination controversy may be abating, The New York Times and The Washington Post each announce 30% staff reductions in their Biden Is Too Old bureaus.
I'm not sure many *can* move on from it. They've burned a lot of access for nothing if that's the case. Like entire publications pulling a Ken Klippenstein
It’s sort of interesting looking at who was taking this up in Congress versus who in the commentariat was doing it. In the latter it was pretty ideologically heterogeneous, but with some on the left flank taking advantage; in the former it seems almost exclusively to have been the center.
Like you wouldn’t picture Max Berger and Brian Beutler taking up a flag for Lloyd Doggett and Seth Moulton and Tim Ryan and Adam Schiff, but here we are.
Moulton is my Congresscritter and you damn well better believe he's heard from me about this. The contrast with Liz Warren, who's been solidly behind Biden, is stunning.
Moulton was the one who took a run at Nancy for SoH a few years ago. I considered moving to Salem just for the pleasure of voting against him for that.
There were a couple on the progressive end - Raul Grijalva, Mark Takano, Julián Castro - but that underscores how weird the battle lines ended up being
Which has soured me on a lot of whiny lil bastards who i once respected
They will be surprised when they find the barn door open and their credibility long gone; Beutler & AmProspect in particular
Oh yes, 99% white and 90% of them having great, not at all contrived reasons for why the successor to the President shouldn't be the VP but some random white dude from the Rust Belt.
I don’t know about this. Every fellow bedwetter that I follow has said multiple times that if Biden stays the nominee they’ll fight their hardest for him because the stakes are impossibly high. We just want to have a real discussion about how to meet this very perilous moment.
Though, there will be a lot of rank and file who cling to this for awhile too, especially with the permission structure some of the press people are going to try and create
Can’t argue with this. I at least hope it’s not as unproductive as the “Bernie would’ve won” chants. At least not before the election. I think those of us discussing this are more pragmatic and much less concerned about owning people or being edgy or whatever.
That said, if Biden remains the nominee and we lose (god forbid) it’ll be so upsetting that it may be hard not to vent some frustration about what could have been if we had not been burdened by what had been or whatever.
it's tricky because there are both people expressing concerns in good faith and also obvious bad-faith actors using Alex Berenson as their assignment editors & people like carville just throwing dumb shit out there.
